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Ethnographic Research on Word Recognition Strategies of Adult Beginning Readers: Technical Report.
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Boraks, Nancy; Schumacher, Sally – 1981
This study was undertaken to identify the reading strategies which facilitated or inhibited the progress of adult beginning readers (ABRs). An ethnographic approach was used so that factors influencing the ABRs' acquisition of these reading strategies could be identified. Using an adapted form of the Goodman and Burke taxonomy of oral reading…
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